Scenario

• Consider the following cases and decide if the patient has the capacity to consent.

–A patient who was stabbed in a street fight, and is highly intoxicated, presents at a hospital casualty ward and requests his stab wounds to be stitched.

–An adult patient with Down’s Syndrome who wants a COVID-19 vaccination.

–A girl of 16 years who wants a pregnancy test after she was raped by her boy friend.